Aldous Huxley's Brave New World: A Better World
Brave New World – A Better World “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” This quote, by Karl Marx, addresses the principle that everyone should contribute as much as they can to society, and in turn take whatever it is they need from the society. The ideology from this quote is greatly applied in Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World. It can be said that the entire foundation of Huxley’s novel is based on this single quote. In the novel, the population of the world is divided up into different groups that have different qualities. Each group, and individual, has a certain role in society in order to obtain a sense of stability. The story takes place centuries in the future; a world where humans are mass-produced
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In chapter three the World Controller, Mustapha Mond, was explaining to a group of students about how in the past there was no stability, “No civilization without social stability. No social stability without individual stability.” (Huxley 36). One major theme in the novel is that everyone works for the greater good of the community. That means that some people will have more luxurious jobs than others, but due to conditioning each job is luxurious to the person doing it. There is a kind of caste system that exists in the novel, where the Alpha people are the ‘leaders’, the Betas and Gammas are the ‘upper/lower middle class’, and the ‘working class’ or ‘poor people’ are the Deltas and Epsilons. It’s clear who the bourgeois and proletariat are, however, unlike most caste systems this system is set up to satisfy all its members, whether it is through intense conditioning or soma. Individual stability is gained from being happy, and the government in this world has found a way to make everyone happy, despite the different roles and positions people have in the society. Jealousy, protest and dissatisfaction don’t exist in this world like it does in ours. No one complains about their job or circumstance because they’ve been conditioned to be happy with who they are, which is a major struggle in todays society. Thus, the theme of the novel holds true: by eliminating individuality social stability will be gained. Due to the fact that every one will be happy no matter their role in society. It is clear that the ‘Brave New World’ is more socially stable and better than our
In chapter three the World Controller, Mustapha Mond, was explaining to a group of students about how in the past there was no stability, “No civilization without social stability. No social stability without individual stability.” (Huxley 36). One major theme in the novel is that everyone works for the greater good of the community. That means that some people will have more luxurious jobs than others, but due to conditioning each job is luxurious to the person doing it. There is a kind of caste system that exists in the novel, where the Alpha people are the ‘leaders’, the Betas and Gammas are the ‘upper/lower middle class’, and the ‘working class’ or ‘poor people’ are the Deltas and Epsilons. It’s clear who the bourgeois and proletariat are, however, unlike most caste systems this system is set up to satisfy all its members, whether it is through intense conditioning or soma. Individual stability is gained from being happy, and the government in this world has found a way to make everyone happy, despite the different roles and positions people have in the society. Jealousy, protest and dissatisfaction don’t exist in this world like it does in ours. No one complains about their job or circumstance because they’ve been conditioned to be happy with who they are, which is a major struggle in todays society. Thus, the theme of the novel holds true: by eliminating individuality social stability will be gained. Due to the fact that every one will be happy no matter their role in society. It is clear that the ‘Brave New World’ is more socially stable and better than our